Myosotella

Myosotella is a European genus or subgenus (of Ovatella) of small, salt marsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae.

Myosotella
live Myosotella myosotis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Myosotella Monterosato, 1906
Type species
Auricula payraudeaui Shuttleworth, 1843
Synonyms
Alexia Leach in Gray, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Alexia Stephens, 1833 [Coleoptera]; Nealexia is a replacement name) Alexia (Kochia) Pallary, 1900 Auricula (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847 Kochia Pallary, 1900 (Invalid: junior homonym of Kochia Frech, 1891 [Bivalvia]) Nealexia Wenz, 1920 Ovatella (Alexia) Leach in Gray, 1847 Ovatella (Myosotella) Monterosato, 1906 Tralia (Alexia) Leach, 1847 Volatela Starobogatov, 1993

It feeds on algae growing on the rocks in a stream.

Species

Species within the genus Myosotella include:

• † Myosotella benoisti (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
• Myosotella bicolor (Morelet, 1860)
• † Myosotella blesensis (de Morgan, 1917)
• † Myosotella boissyi (Cossmann, 1889)
• † Myosotella depressa (O. Boettger, 1877)
• † Myosotella dumortieri (Fontannes, 1876)
• † Myosotella elongata (Briart & Cornet, 1887)
• † Myosotella fusiformis (A. Bell, 1870)
• † Myosotella mucronata (O. Boettger, 1875)
• † Myosotella munieri (Tournouër, 1872)
• Myosotella myosotis Draparnaud, 1801
• † Myosotella myotis (Brocchi, 1814)
• † Myosotella obovata (Paladilhe, 1874)
• † Myosotella pisolina (Deshayes, 1830)
• † Myosotella raouli (Ivolas & Peyrot, 1900)
• † Myosotella torulosa (Paladilhe, 1874)
• † Myosotella viennensis (Fontannes, 1876)

Species brought into synonymy

• † Myosotella bardini (Tournouër, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)
• Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803): synonym of Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)
• † Myosotella polyodon (F. Sandberger, 1872): synonym of † Tralia bardini (Tournouër, 1872)

References

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Starobogatov, Ya.I. & Anistratenko, V.V. (1993). Моллюски подотряда Ellobioidei (Pulmonata) побережья Средиземного моря и Ев- ропейской Атлантики. [Molluscs of the suborder Ellobioidei (Pulmonata) of the shores of the Mediterranean and European Atlantic]. Вестник зоологии [Vestnik Zoologii]. (1993)4: 3-9.

External links

• AnimalBase info at: [1]
• Monterosato, T. A. di. (1906). Articolo sulle Auriculidae, Assiminidae e Truncatellidae dei mari d'Europa. Il Naturalista Siciliano. New Series, 18 (6): 125–130
• Gray, J.E. (1847). On the classification of the British Mollusca by W E Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 1, 20: 267-273.
• Wenz, W. (1920). Die Ellobiiden des Mainzer Beckens. Senckenbergiana. 2: 189-192
• Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls
• Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422
• Martins, A. M. de F. (1999). On the generic separation of Ovatella Bivona, 1832 and Myosotella Monterosato (Pulmonata, Ellobiidae). Iberus. 17(2): 59-75†